SHE told lie after lie as she siphoned off thousands of pounds from those who loved her.

Now scheming Emma Charlton is back behind bars after conning her gran and her fiance to the tune of more than £150,000.

Serial fraudster Charlton’s web of lies were branded wicked by a judge as he locked her up for three years.

The full extent of her fantasy world was revealed for the first time as Newcastle Crown Court heard how she made up stories to line her pockets.

The twisted 25-year-old pretended to be editor of Vogue magazine, a manager of Marks and Spencer, terminally ill with cancer and the daughter of a judge.

She told victim Neil Lupton she was a successful businesswoman and even carried a miniature dog under her arm in an effort to keep up the illusion – despite barely having a penny to her name.

Charlton had already been locked up for two years in 2007 for similar frauds when she was exposed by gym owner Michael Jeffels. He was befriended by the fantasist but turned detective after she pretended to be a doctor treating a child cancer patient who wanted to meet Alan Shearer.

It led to her being arrested in August 2005 after Charlton – who also used the name Golightly – began posing as a consultant surgeon. But now, after she has been jailed for three years for her more recent crimes, Mr Jeffels said she is evil and needs psychiatric help.

“She is back in jail for the second time but she will be out again within a year and a bit of good behaviour, I am surprised they didn’t jail her for longer,” said Mr Jeffels, 45, of North Shields.

“Now that she is behind bars the public will be safe but if she doesn’t get any psychiatric treatment while she is in there I’m sure she will be back up to her evil ways when she gets out.

“I managed to slip her net but there are so many others who haven’t. I hope she gets it when she’s inside prison.”

In her latest case Charlton conned her gran and duped fianceé Neil Lupton out of more than £150,000 by stealing their cheques and credit cards.

Charlton had changed her name from Golightly by deed poll after serving her last prison sentence and as soon as her licence expired she was back at it again, ripping off those close to her.

Charlton, 25, of Meadowfield Gardens, Walkerville, Newcastle, had met Mr Lupton in September 2008 and immediately started lying to him.

She said she had been adopted in Africa, told him she had cancer and said she was a high-flying businesswoman who ran a successful photography firm and claimed she had been featured in Vogue magazine and had offices all over the country.

Mr Lupton was taken in by the facade and never suspected Charlton had stolen his cheque book.

At around the same time she also stole the cheque book of her gran, who had also been one of her victims in the 2007 scam.

Charlton persuaded Mr Lupton they should get married and they booked every room in Slaley Hall Hotel, near Hexham, for the £70,000 wedding, Charlton telling bosses she was now editor of Vogue.

Caring Mr Lupton had even arranged for his fiance to get a carer in twice a week, as he thought she was dying.

Then in April last year Charlton went to the Hilton Hotel, in Gateshead, and said she wanted to host a charity fashion night for models touched by cancer.

She agreed to pay more than £5,000 for the evening but only five to 10 people turned up and she said that the van carrying the clothes for the event had broken down and the event never went ahead.

Further investigations showed she had also intercepted a credit card taken out by Mr Lupton and made purchases worth £16,000 and then tried to take out a loan for £8,000 in his name.

Locking her up, Judge Guy Whitburn said: “Putting it bluntly, she is wicked. She has deceived her close family and a man who quite clearly was in love with her.”

The court heard it is not clear exactly what she spent the money on, although she did give £50,000 to friends to buy a house and had spent some of it on foreign holidays and currency, and goods including food, jewellery, bedding, much of which she exchanged for cash at a shop called Cash Converters.

In total she wrote 19 cheques from her gran’s cheque book to the tune of £126,387. She also wrote nine cheques from Mr Lupton’s account, worth £28,402.

Not all the cheques were honoured, though, meaning the total loss was £38,000.

Charlton was already on police bail for using her mother’s debit card to pay for beauty treatment.

And as well as the other frauds she also got a job at Marks and Spencer by deception, working there from September to December 2008, having not revealed her previous convictions.

She pleaded guilty to a total of 23 fraud and theft charges. Michael Hodson, defending, said she had a personality disorder and was “not normal”.